Role of multiple gene copies in particulate methane monooxygenase activity in the methane-oxidizing bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus Bath

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1235-1244

  Stolyar, Sergei ^a   Costello, Andria M ^c   Peeples, Tonya L ^c,d   Lidstrom, Mary E ^a,b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Duplicate genes; Methane monooxygenase; Methanotroph; pmo

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GENE PRODUCT; METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; METHYLOCOCCUS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS STR. BATH; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0032923140     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-5-1235     Document Type: Article

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